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Subject: Re: Text appears reverted in textbox
From: Maruan Sahyoun <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de>
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 07:59:36 +0200
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Hi,
> Am 28.04.2017 um 05:44 schrieb Mickael Marrache =
<mickaelmarrache@gmail.com>:
>=20
> Thanks for looking at this.
>=20
> Is there an estimate for when PDFBox will be able to support it?
>=20

no, as this is a volunteers effort I can't give you any timing on this. =
We are planning to do it but maybe in another major release as one of =
the options we are looking into is dependent on Java 8 (and we are just =
moving to Java 7 for PDFBox 3.0).

Is it Java libraries you are looking for? I could give you some names =
but as I havn't tried filling forms in Hebrew with these I don't know if =
they are able to handle your requirements.

BR
Maruan


> Could you please propose alternative libraries that we can use in the
> meantime? Free libraries preferred but not only.
>=20
> Thanks,
> Mickael
>=20
> Le 28 avr. 2017 01:14, "Maruan Sahyoun" <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de> a =
=C3=A9crit :
>=20
>> OK, I had a look at this.
>>=20
>> At this point in time PDFBox doesn't support the appearance =
generation for
>> RTL text. The reason you see the text reverted is because one would =
need to
>> handle the text in visual order.
>>=20
>> So where PDFBox writes the string as
>>=20
>> \000\250\000\243\000\245\000\232\000\246
>>=20
>> Adobe Reader writes the string as
>>=20
>> \000\246\000\232\000\245\000\243\000\250
>>=20
>> This could be fixed but wouldn't be sufficient to completely handle =
Hebrew
>> and other languages whith complex-text requirements (word forming,
>> character shaping, BIDI =E2=80=A6).
>>=20
>> At that point in time PDFBox doesn't provide the capabilites needed.
>>=20
>> BR
>> Maruan
>>=20
>>=20
>>> Am 26.04.2017 um 12:34 schrieb Mickael Marrache <
>> mickael@wakeuppension.com>:
>>>=20
>>> The PDF before filling:
>>>=20
>>> http://docdro.id/ybLln7x
>>>=20
>>> The PDF after filling:
>>>=20
>>> http://docdro.id/QcZfT9H
>>>=20
>>> On 2017-04-26 10:56 (+0300), Maruan Sahyoun <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de>
>> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>=20
>>>>> Am 26.04.2017 um 08:19 schrieb Mickael Marrache <
>> mickaelmarrache@gmail.com>:
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>=20
>>>>> I'm trying to fill a PDF form using PDFBox 2.0.5 as follows:
>>>>>=20
>>>>> PDDocument pdfDocument =3D
>>>>> PDDocument.load(this.getClass().getClassLoader().
>> getResourceAsStream("form.pdf"));
>>>>> PDAcroForm acroForm =3D =
pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm();
>>>>>=20
>>>>> PDResources formResources =3D acroForm.getDefaultResources();
>>>>> PDTrueTypeFont font =3D (PDTrueTypeFont)
>>>>> formResources.getFont(COSName.getPDFName("David,Bold"));
>>>>>=20
>>>>> TrueTypeFont ttFont =3D font.getTrueTypeFont();
>>>>>=20
>>>>> PDFont font2 =3D PDType0Font.load(pdfDocument, ttFont, true);
>>>>> ttFont.close();
>>>>>=20
>>>>> formResources.put(COSName.getPDFName("F0"), font2);
>>>>>=20
>>>>> if (acroForm !=3D null) {
>>>>> PDTextField field =3D (PDTextField) =
acroForm.getField("full_name");
>>>>> field.setDefaultAppearance("/F0 10 Tf 0 g");
>>>>> field.setValue(/* hebrew text here*/);
>>>>> }
>>>>>=20
>>>>> File targetFile =3D File.createTempFile("", ".pdf");
>>>>> pdfDocument.save(targetFile);
>>>>> pdfDocument.close();
>>>>>=20
>>>>> The reason I embed the David,Bold font is explained here
>>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42903217/write-
>> cyrillic-chars-into-pdf-form-fields-with-pdfbox
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> could you upload a PDF before and after filling to a public =
location?
>>>>=20
>>>> BR
>>>> Maruan
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>>> .
>>>>>=20
>>>>> The issue is that the resulting PDF file has the text in the =
full_name
>>>>> textbox displayed in the reverse direction. However, if I click on =
the
>>>>> textbox, the text appears correctly. I precise that the text =
filled in
>> the
>>>>> textbox is in Hebrew (right-to-left).
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Any idea?
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Mickael
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
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